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- LUCRECE 11
curious to relate, in Germany. One of Hans Sachs’ dramas bears the title ‘Ein schön spil von der geschicht der Edlin Römerin Lucretia’ (Strassburg, 1550). In France there was performed at the Court at Gaillon, in the presence of the king, Charles IX, on September 29, 1566, a short tragedy in alexandrines (with choruses in other metres) by one Nicolas Filleul of Rouen, which bore the title: ‘Lucrece, Tragédie avec des Chœurs’. The plot follows the classical lines. But Lucrece’s nurse, an original character, is introduced to offer her mistress consolation and to dissuade her from self-slaughter. In Spain the tale was equally familiar, and about 1590 a celebrated poet, Don Juan de Arguijo, after writing of Venus and Adonis, summed up the current knowledge in the Peninsula concerning Lucrece in an effective sonnet, which is often quoted in anthologies of Spanish poetry.
Meanwhile the story was running its course anew in popular English literature. In the same year as the French tragedy of *Lucrece* was produced at Gaillon, William Painter included a paraphrase of Livy’s version in his massive collection of popular fiction entitled *The Palace of Pleasure*. In the years that immediately followed, the tale was made the subject of at least two ballads, which have not survived. In 1568 there was licensed to John Allde, by the Stationers’ Company’s Register (cf. i. 379), ‘a ballet called “The grevious complaynt of Lucrece”, and in 1570 there was licensed to James Roberts ‘A ballad of the Death of Lucryssia’ (i. 416). A third ballad of Lucrece, of which no copy is now known, was, according to Warton, printed in 1576.
The tale’s popularity in Elizabethan England.
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1 This piece is printed in a rare volume called *Les Théâtres de Gaillon*, A French tragedy by the well-known dramatist, Alexandre Hardy, written a little later, bears the title ‘Lucrece, ou l’adulteur puni’, but this play does not deal with the story of the Roman matron, but with an imaginary adulteress of Spain. Hardy’s tragedy was first published in 1616.
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